TH Exclusives (about)

Eliza Barclay is a freelance journalist based in Washington, DC specializing in public health and environmental issues in Latin America and Africa. She can frequently be found jetting east or south on assignment and hopes the airline industry will get cracking on its carbon footprint to assuage her guilty conscience. She has written about Latin America and Africa for a variety of publications including The New York Times, Slate, The New Republic Online, Business Week, National Geographic News and The Lancet. In 2007, she was awarded a fellowship from the International Reporting Project at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies with which she traveled to Tanzania and Kenya to report on malaria, climate change and illegal logging. She graduated with a B.S. in Conservation and Resource Studies from the University of California at Berkeley.